Recently, the construction of expressway is mainly concentrating in northwest, the expressway network has basically formed in eastern developed areas in our country.

近年来，我国东部发达地区的高速公路网已基本形成，目前高速公路的建设主要集中西北部。

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The eastern boundary of Sichuan-Yunnan stress zone (the eastern stress transition belt) is basically consistent with the eastern boundary of Sichuan-Yunnan rhombic block.

川滇应力区东边界（东边的应力转换带）基本上与川滇菱形块体的东边界相吻合；

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Chavez is a price hawk and he, unlike most of the cartel members who are Middle Eastern, is basically asking the cartel to lower its output of oil so that prices will go up.

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This basically means much lower tax rates, like the Flat Tax programs that have been popular throughout eastern Europe.

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